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Premise: the continuum is bullshit and can do whatever idk, viewing only or with alterations, depending on what makes sense to you. It's not a contest to do the most (well okay it is but that could limit our inquiry), just whatever occurs to you first.
2009 January 8, going to my own apartment and bringing a modern server and USB stick to myself.
The next day I'd put some files on the USB stick and give it to my younger self and give him instructions to only sell 5% per year and don't invest in any other coins.
Also younger self, you don't have just a little social ineptitude, you have full-blown autism.
Also younger self, invest in Novo Nordisk and get some Ozempic the moment you have the chance.
Also younger self, congratulations on being mostly right about what the future of world politics and technology would hold, including the US becoming fascist, but here's an updated version of it.
April 1, 1946. Push a very pregnant Mary Anne Trump down a very steep set of stairs.
There's a lot of interesting Branch points you can think of. I've always been interested in what would have happened if Bobby Kennedy hadn't been assassinated. That seems like a really big one.
Of course maybe the most important one I can think of is going back in time and beating Jubal Early to death before I can start all that lost cause bullshit.
(Centurii-chan)
Grandgrandgrandfish paradox
I'd go back about 12,800 years and see the world before the Younger Dryas.
I would do something similar if I was allowed to bring a lifetime supply of antibiotics.
kill lenin. i mean, not a bad idea.
Absolutely terrible idea, why would you want Tsarism to persist?! If anything, saving Lenin and Sverdlov would have probably helped the early soviets.
Dec 15th, 1791 along with an AR-15 and four high capacity magazines just to explain something to a few people.
Why not bring a metal storm gun and 8 million rounds of ammunition?
I would just want them to understand that a single shot musket that takes thirty seconds to load each round wouldn't always be the norm.
"I just wanna talk to him."
Take a slide rule to ancient Babylon because on some level I'm morally offended we didn't figure that one out until the 17th century. Ideally this also snipes a variety of terrible numeral systems.
About 300 million years ago.
That's the earliest time that you could still breathe comfortably.
I have sinus problems so I've never been able to breathe comfortably
Late 1999, I'd smash all the voting machines in Florida.
Brooks Brothers Rioters. Cut all their valve stems. Also, maybe do something about the SC, because they just handed the election to Bush anyway.
Alternatively I'd somehow stop the Taft-Hartley act from passing. It prevented trade unions from making political donations until Citizens United vs FEC.
I can be very specific: Jamaica Hospital June 14th 1946
I'd go back to 1921 and save the original communist party heads of my country. Maybe we would have a better chance that way.
I would go to the year 1800, and bring with me a bunch of books on science and engineering. Basically all the building blocks you need to build wind farms and solar power. I would visit all the universities I can and drop these books in library shelves. Some climate change literature could be nice too.
During the pandemic we learned that people react well to reasoning and people telling them what to do
I have a plan B too, but itβs not so gentle.
The goal is to become the number one energy producer and stomp out all opposition and competition before it has a chance to grow. There are no laws against cartels and monopolies, so you exploit the hell out of it. You file extremely broad patents to prevent fossil fuels and combustion based motors from ever becoming a thing. You play super dirty, no mercy, no remorse. Itβs going to be basically like the East-India Company, but with renewable energy.
You lobby governments to adopt renewable energy and electrical devices you provide. You influence the public opinion on fossil fuels by spreading information about climate change, pollution and negative health effects. If the global energy company becomes big enough, you should make your own private army and conquer all the places where large oil deposits exist, and establish massive natural reserve parks in those areas. Lobby the governments to make other similar areas legally protected from all industrial development for the next 1000 years.
You would become the supervillain billionaire of the 1800s, but you put the whole world on a renewable trajectory.
You influence the public opinion on fossil fuels by spreading information about climate change, pollution and negative health effects
if you are playing dirty, telling them digging up those evil black liquid out can anger the gods would work too
That could work too. Superstitions and religions were in at the time, so I think thereβs plenty to exploit.
You could call coal the Devilβs rock, and spread rumors about it being cursed and haunted. You cal talk about the smoke causing vice, moral decay and sin. Oil could be seen as the blood of the Earth, tears from ancient curses, bad omens etc. Only rebellious sorcerers and heretics would dare to tamper with the natural order of things by burning oil. As the un-godly un-natural smoke poisons the air, it poisons the soul etc. God gave you the sun and wind, so using them is the only righteous choiceβ¦ You get the idea. The 1800s was a magical period of time.
I'm going back to 1985 and telling Doc to have a nice life.
I would go back to 1990 and tell my parents to take young me to a psychiatrist to have me checked for ADHD.
Same. Geiler Name <3
Iβd go to this date and buy this ticket. Iβd buy this ticket because there was no winner and next week was a 1.8 billion dollar winner
Gambling addiction really is on the rise...
How is it a gamble if I already know the answer? Thatβs not gambling. Thatβs going and picking up the winning ticket. trying to see how this is a bad thing for anybody. I mean, other than the person who won on the next round.
would be safer to buy a few bitcoins, those numbers are random, are we sure they'll be the same once you go back in time?
The point isn't that this hypothetical would be a gamble, just that it's a gambler's fantasy. I blame Barstool Sports and Drake.
Go back and offer that guy pizza AND FRIES.
I tell general Butler to accept Lincolns VP position. Then leave a time capsule in the future USSR to be opened in 1920 or so with instructions for building computers
The point I'm making is there's so much technological development in manufacturing that has to take place before you can even start, it probably wouldn't happen any faster. Just the technology that builds the machines that builds the machines that build the chips is beyond the 1920s.
Turing's papers on computing were all pre-WW2 anyway.
Shoot Gorbachev right in the forehead stain.
We should probably go further back and stop Khrushchev, more effective
Yeah I'm crashing Franco's plane
1995 to visit my family when they were all still alive. It wouldn't hurt urging them to invest in Apple stock and Bitcoin while I'm at it.
I'm sending that tiktaalik back into the ocean til it's stops trying to come back on land
I would go back to 1955 (yes, kinda ironic to think of it), with more modern medical instruments, anesthesia, sterilization, etc, and try to save my Baby Blue uncle who I was named after. He was born with his intestines on the outside and only lived one day βΉοΈπ
Yeah I'm no medical expert nor surgeon, but holy shit he might have had a better chance with more modern medical equipment and knowledge, I would have surely tried to do my most cautious best...
1968
68er movement + RAF goes hard
10,000BC
How would you stop them?
Call me selfish, but I'd go back two weeks and salt the walkway for sick Cracks and company.
Was a very Life is Strange-esque, 'this action will have consequences' branching path event.
